Luigi Busi

Busi studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, though by 1868, he is documented to be in Milan.

Busi painted many fresco commissions in Bologna, including the decoration of the Room contiguous to the Council Hall in the Palazzo Comunale.

At Imola, he decorated with frescoes the staircase of the Palazzo Pighini,[1] and the dome of the Sanctuary of Piratello.

Among his historical canvases are: Confession of Isabella Orsini (1866); Torquato Tasso and Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini at the Convent of Sant'Onofrio, Rome (1867);[2] and The last moments of Niccolò de' Lapi.

[3] Among his genre works are: Un'ora d'ozio in villa, Una debolezza femminile, Le gioie materne (1872), Il paggio e la duchessa, Compiacenze materne (1875), La visita alla puerpera, Le due madri (exhibited in Paris, 1878), Tutti hanno il loro nido , Il giorno onomastico di Bebé, La Parisina, and Conseguenze di un matrimonio celebrato col solo rito religioso (1875, Brera).